Did it work? Nope. Our “Gonzales” post generated just about no interest.

In retrospect, that’s a comforting result — web content should win traffic based on merit, not on headline trickery.

Digging deeper using Feedburner analytics, it turns the Ubuntu spike was caused by a powerful inbound link, coming to our blog from the Linux site Tuxmachines. Curious — why didn’t Technorati detect this link?